test paths in repo

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Thu Sep 4 21:02:09 UTC 2014


2014/9/4 12:55 -0700, john.r.rose at oracle.com:
> ...
> 
> Generally, grammar of such paths appears to be:
>   $REPO / test / $TEST_PACKAGE_PREFIX / $API_PACKAGE
> where TEST_PACKAGE_PREFIX is fixed as "org/openjdk/tests", and
> API_PACKAGE is "java/util/stream" or some such.
> 
> Has this organization for tests worn well?  Would you do it again that
> way?

Someone who actually worked on these tests will have to comment.  Using
long package names for test code (or, really, any package name at all
unless actually needed) is overkill in my opinion, and a relatively new
thing in our collection of unit and regression tests.

- Mark



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